Old Accounts Getting Hacked

[pmmg]

Nist Guidelines

Note: They do not agree with the above.

Passwords suck, and remembering a lot of them sucks more. Doing things like changing regularly, and adding all those strange characters may seem useful, but really....its not. Password length matters more than anything else. The above does not hurt, but its overkill.

 

[xena]

>most passwrods are 'cracked' because they were leaked,

Yep. And yep also for long passwords. But when I have 50+ passwords to manage, even the long password thing is a challenge. That's where a good pw manager helps. Not only does it generate a long pw, I can set it to remind me to change passwords every 90 days or so. Yes it's a hassle.

Changing password every 90 days is easy to said but not easy to do.

 

[xena]

Many of you have seen the threads already, but there's been a rush of posts from old but valid accounts posting spam. Some of them were still stopped by our spam filters, and some we had to delete manually.

Although we call this hacking, most likely they are matching emails and passwords that were leaked from other big site hacks. Many people use the same password for multiple accounts, so when an email and password combo are leaked in one place, scammers know there's a good chance that combination will work in other places.

So while we look into ways to address this issue, we advise everyone to please change your passwords. There are also places online where you can check which passwords have been publicly connected to your email. And finally, this incident highlights why it's always good advice to use a unique password, but it's an absolute must for your email account, followed by your google, facebook, apple, microsoft and bank accounts. Long multiword passwords (dogcatfrogtoad) are more effective, but most of the time they use info from big hack leaks or they trick people into entering their information in the wrong place.

Please report any spam. And stay safe online, folks.

Most passwords are cracked because they were leaked.

 

[xena]

Nist Guidelines

Note: They do not agree with the above.

Passwords suck, and remembering a lot of them sucks more. Doing things like changing regularly, and adding all those strange characters may seem useful, but really....its not. Password length matters more than anything else. The above does not hurt, but its overkill.

I think most passwords are cracked because they were leaked. Changing password regularly, and adding all those strange characters may not useful.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Most passwords are cracked because they were leaked.

Fairly sure that's what Devor said. But if you would like to add something constructive, we'd love to hear it.

Also, even as convenient as password minders can be, you can't go wrong with going old school. When they learn to hack paper is the day we'll truly be in trouble.

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